an unbroken friendship of twenty-five years, Frances E. Willard,
herself one of the grandest women of the century, paid this beautiful
tribute in December, 1897:

Ever since I "came to myself" my love and loyalty have enveloped
the name, Susan B. Anthony. I look upon her as that figure full of
courage, resource and dignity which will yet be enshrined in the
admiring affection of the whole republic, even as it already has
been for so long in that of thoughtful women. Others have done
nobly and we count over their names with devout remembrance and
gratitude, but Susan B. Anthony by reason of her heroic
self-sacrifice, her lonely life, her changeless devotion, her
disregard for money and position, her concentration of purpose and
universal good will, has made for herself a place on the highest
pedestal in America's pantheon of women.

We do not forget "the slings and arrows" of the earlier time, now
that she is justly honored in these years of greater intelligence
and progress; we do not forget that high sense of personal
integrity which led her to pay off the debts on The Revolution,
although no legal obligation rested upon her to do so; we do not
forget her testing of an unjust law in the great "case" in
Rochester; we do not forget that (jointly with her great associate,
Mrs. Stanton) she prepared for us that invaluable historic record
of the suffrage movement from its earliest inception; we do not
forget the untiring labors which have carried her, from youth to
age, into every nook and corner of the Union; and many of us are
cognizant of unnumbered acts of personal kindness toward women in
need who cherish her as if she were their sister or their mother.
Although the press once misrepresented her, it would hardly venture
to do so now, for her standing with the public is such that not to
know Miss Anthony argues one's self unknown, and to vilify her
argues one's self a villain.

Blessed Sister Susan, accept the homage of one whom you have
cheered and comforted, and who rejoices to believe that the loving
friendship begun here shall grow and deepen in the bright light of
that happier world where there is no injustice, and where we have
abundant reason to believe that women will stand on a plane of
perfect equality.

A number of years ago, Elizabeth C